ALLAH is GOD in Arabic Bible

[Ruh]

Was reading Arabic Bible - Genesis (تكوين) . The first verse shocks me when I found the name of GOD is written ALLAH (الله) . In the whole chapter there were 31 verses and the name of الله also mentioned 31 times. Checked randomly the chapters from NT and found the same . Here is some examples...

Genesis 1
تكوين 1

1 في البدء خلق الله السموات والارض .

2 وكانت الارض خربة وخالية وعلى وجه الغمر ظلمة وروح الله يرف على وجه المياه .

3 وقال الله ليكن نور فكان نور .

4 وراى الله النور انه حسن . وفصل الله بين النور والظلمة .

5 ودعا الله النور نهارا والظلمة دعاها ليلا . وكان مساء وكان صباح يوما واحدا .




John 1
يوحنا 1

1 في البدء كان الكلمة والكلمة كان عند الله وكان الكلمة الله.

2 هذا كان في البدء عند الله.

3 كل شيء به كان وبغيره لم يكن شيء مما كان.

4 فيه كانت الحياة والحياة كانت نور الناس.

5 والنور يضيء في الظلمة والظلمة لم تدركه

6 كان انسان مرسل من الله اسمه يوحنا.

Ruh.

 

[Rival]

What's your inference? All-h just means 'The G-d'.

 

[Harel13]

How else would God be written in Arabic?

 

[Ruh]

I heard from so many Jews n Christians that ALLAH is not GOD and/or Muhammad invented the name ALLAH etc.Hence feeling surprised about those accusations ...

 

[Rival]

I heard from so many Jews n Christians that ALLAH is not GOD and/or Muhammad invented the name ALLAH etc.Hence feeling surprised about those accusations ...

Yes, I believe some are under the impression that All-h is/was a moon god. Not sure why this is; the etymology of this word is pretty clear.

 

[Tumah]

I heard from so many Jews n Christians that ALLAH is not GOD and/or Muhammad invented the name ALLAH etc.Hence feeling surprised about those accusations ...

What would you expect it to say instead?

 

[Harel13]

I heard from so many Jews n Christians that ALLAH is not GOD and/or Muhammad invented the name ALLAH etc.Hence feeling surprised about those accusations ...

Still, in linguistic terms, Allah means God, so that's how it's translated. In theological terms, there's a debate whether or not the Muslim depiction of Allah is the same entity as the Jewish or Christian depictions.

 

[Ruh]

How else would God be written in Arabic?

Replacing اللَّهِ with يهوه

 

[Harel13]

Yes, I believe some are under the impression that All-h is/was a moon god. Not sure why this is; the etymology of this word is pretty clear.

Allah as a lunar deity - Wikipedia
Classic trying-to-disprove-a-religion-or-ethnic-group-by-invalidating-their-basic-traditions trick

 

[Rival]

Replacing اللَّهِ with يهوه

Printed Bibles don't have the Tetragrammaton.

 

[exchemist]

Was reading Arabic Bible - Genesis (تكوين) . The first verse shocks me when I found the name of GOD is written ALLAH (الله) . In the whole chapter there were 31 verses and the name of الله also mentioned 31 times. Checked randomly the chapters from NT and found the same . Here is some examples...

Genesis 1
تكوين 1

1 في البدء خلق الله السموات والارض .

2 وكانت الارض خربة وخالية وعلى وجه الغمر ظلمة وروح الله يرف على وجه المياه .

3 وقال الله ليكن نور فكان نور .

4 وراى الله النور انه حسن . وفصل الله بين النور والظلمة .

5 ودعا الله النور نهارا والظلمة دعاها ليلا . وكان مساء وكان صباح يوما واحدا .




John 1
يوحنا 1

1 في البدء كان الكلمة والكلمة كان عند الله وكان الكلمة الله.

2 هذا كان في البدء عند الله.

3 كل شيء به كان وبغيره لم يكن شيء مما كان.

4 فيه كانت الحياة والحياة كانت نور الناس.

5 والنور يضيء في الظلمة والظلمة لم تدركه

6 كان انسان مرسل من الله اسمه يوحنا.

Ruh.

Aren't we all "people of the book"? All three Abrahamic religions derive from the same source, even if the detailed conceptions of God, or Allah, differ in our different traditions.

(I'm sorry to say that I've forgotten almost all the little Arabic I learned in my time in the Gulf and can no longer read the script.)

 

[Harel13]

Replacing اللَّهِ with يهوه

Google tells me this is the Arabic way of writing the Tetragrammaton. The problem is that the first time God appears in the Bible is under the name "Elo-him" which is spelled completely different from the Tetragram.

 

[Ruh]

What would you expect it to say instead?

You can not . The Semitic root of ALLAH is way ancient than the era of Muhammad . Wondering why some Jews and Christian thought the name ALLAH was a cunning act of Muhammad !

 

[Rival]

You can not . The Semitic root of ALLAH is way ancient than the era of Muhammad . Wondering why some Jews and Christian thought the name ALLAH was a cunning act of Muhammad !

It's mostly Christian polemic.

 

[Ruh]

Google tells me this is the Arabic way of writing the Tetragrammaton. The problem is that the first time God appears in the Bible is under the name "Elo-him" which is spelled completely different from the Tetragram.

That is true .

 

[Ruh]

Is it appropriate that Arab Christians call God Allah?
Thomas Schirrmacher
https://www.bucer.de/fileadmin/_migrated/tx_org/mbstexte142_addendum_01.pdf

 

[Tumah]

You can not . The Semitic root of ALLAH is way ancient than the era of Muhammad . Wondering why some Jews and Christian thought the name ALLAH was a cunning act of Muhammad !

I know. All-h is a combination of al ilah. Ilah comes from the Semitic root alif-lam-ha. The word that it's replacing in Genesis also comes from that root. It's spelled alif lam ha ya mim

 

[Ruh]

Yes, I believe some are under the impression that All-h is/was a moon god. Not sure why this is; the etymology of this word is pretty clear.

Yeah , despite its been clarified by the text itself:

[041:037] And from among His Signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Prostrate not to the sun nor to the moon, but prostrate to Allah Who created them, if you (really) worship Him.

 

[Terry Sampson]

there's a debate

Not so much a debate as an irreconcilable difference. Another one of those things to be resolved in the world to come.

 

[Terry Sampson]

Wondering why some Jews and Christian thought the name ALLAH was a cunning act of Muhammad !

"Cunning"?? Seems to me like a perfectly reasonable thing to do if one wants to replace someone's worldview with one that is preferred.